Le château de Cendrillon

Serge Chapleau, La Presse

9 janvier 2012

 

La future voiture d'Alex dans ..............années

 Katharine Lawrence has no idea what hit her. The attack came out of nowhere. Only hours earlier she had been enjoying a girls-only weekend with an old college friend. Now she finds herself lying bound and gagged on her kitchen floor, staring with terrified eyes at her friend Lisa while two masked gunmen search her house for – what? She doesn’t know. She only knows that, unless they can escape, whatever it is could end up getting both her and Lisa killed. But Katharine’s nightmare is only just beginning. When she awakens in a Washington hospital, her nose crushed, her body battered, her brain tells her things aren’t right – and it’s not the attack that’s disorienting her. She doesn’t recognize herself when she looks in the mirror: her slim body, her manicured hands, her blond bob. And the smiling, handsome doctor at her bedside – Dr. Dan Howard – is familiar, but in a totally unfamiliar way. Perhaps the trauma of the attempt on her life has given her some kind of weird amnesia. She’s twenty-nine, the special assistant to the head of the CIA, and she’s lucky to be alive. She also knows she can trust no one. Acting on instinct, Katharine runs for her life, with Dan, her new-found protector, at her side. By turns grateful and unnerved by his presence, and unable to shake a feeling of profound dread, she allows Dan to spirit her to a secluded safe house. Instead of finding a haven, they stumble into a tangled web of government conspiracy, leaving Katharine confused, frightened, and desperate to uncover the truth. As the pair is drawn further into this shadowy world where almost nothing is as it seems, as fear gives way to a firestorm of attraction, the cat-and-mouse game grows more deadly, and soon both of their lives are at stake.  - une  autre excellent livre

 

Epiphanie : histoire de cette fête

Le premier dimanche du mois de janvier, on fête traditionnellement l’Epiphanie. Cette fête symbolise la visite des Rois Mages à l’enfant Jésus. Il s’agit donc d’une fête religieuse.
Date de l’Epiphanie ?
Si la date de l’Epiphanie est celle du premier dimanche de janvier, dans l’esprit des gens cette fête religieuse est célébrée le 6 janvier. Cette année 2013, les choses tombent bien puisque le 6 janvier est aussi le premier dimanche de janvier !

 

Sophie.Amy. Chris, Zachary, Nick

 

Anniversaire de Chris chez Amy et Nick (Thanks Amy)

 

La montagne vous appartient? Pas grands braves qui skient!

Bon anniversaire Chris xxx

 

''Voici un petit repas bien agréable après une petite tournée de lendemain du jour de l'an.''
Bonne année, de Carmel et Marcel
(Monique, Micheline, Roland, Gaëtane, Carmel Giroux)

Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Sunny, idyllic, and picture perfect, until a tabloid news program airs a splashy segment about the community's only unsolved murder-the grisly stabbing of teenager Tara Mitchell and the subsequent disappearance of her two best friends, both thought to be long dead. In the years since the murders, several families have moved into the mansion where the crime occurred, each claiming that the dead girls still haunt the house. Beautiful redheaded reporter Nicole Sullivan, sensing the story that could be her big break, arranges for her mother, a renowned psychic, to contact the three victims via a live séance on the show Twenty-four Hours Investigates.

But something goes terribly wrong during the segment, and a young woman is murdered in the exact same manner as Tara Mitchell was fifteen years earlier. Pressured by her producers to get the inside story, Nicole is ordered to continue to investigate. As an attraction grows between Nicole and police chief Joe Franconi, another identical murder occurs, along with a menacing note warning that the original killer is back to claim three more lives. The body count rises, and so does the danger to Nicole, who is attacked, barely escaping with her life. She and Joe are forced to join forces as it becomes clear that the killer has set his sights on Nicole as his next victim. (un autre page-turner)

 

Mes meilleurs voeux pour une excellente année remplie de choses agréables!

Brome / Moyenne du mois de décembre 2012

Pluie : 35.6mm
Neige : 52.4cm
Maximum : -1.4 / 17.5 le 4
Minimum : : -6.5 / -17.0 le 26 décembre
Vents : 11km / 35km/hr les 21 et 27 décembre
dominants SE

Météo / moyennes des mois de décembre

 

Météo/Brome - décembre 2012

 

Je me demandais toujours pourquoi Cléo arrivait en courant quand j'utilisais la déchiqueteuse... un papier de moins à manger ça c'est très frustrant!

One cold November night when Kat White was fifteen years old, she and some friends held up a convenience store. In the heat of the moment, one of the others shot and killed an off-duty cop moonlighting as a security guard. Kat and her pals fled the scene in a panic, and no one was caught. Sixteen years later, Kat-now Kate-has built a new life for herself. Now a single mom with an eight-year-old son, she works as a prosecutor in the Philadelphia DA's office. But her dark past rears its head when she walks into court one day and discovers that she is to prosecute Mario Castellanos, one of her friends from that terrible night. Kate is in a bind: even though Mario was the one who probably did commit the crime, he's counting on Kate to make sure he's not convicted. If she convinces the judge of his guilt, he'll claim that she was the one who killed the off-duty cop. Before real despair sets in, Mario is found dead-in her apartment, and with her pistol. When homicide detective Tom Braga shows up to investigate the murder, Kate is far from relieved; the two have clashed since she started working for the prosecutor's office. But when another man who knows the secret of Kate's past gets involved in the investigation, she learns that her life-and her son's-are in danger. Frantic, she realizes that she has nowhere to turn. Except, maybe, to Tom ... un autre''page-turner'' excellent *****

 

Martin - Maternelle - 5 ans

Photos d'école : père et fils

 

Zachary - 7 ans

 

Nicolas - 7 ans

 

Bacon cheese bites sur ficelle/ flammekuche/pizza alsacienne (pour la recette)
baguette, fromage blanc, demi-crème,oignon, lard finement tranché, poivre du moulin, noix de muscade

 

grignotines

Le boson de Higgs, la découverte scientifique de 2012

(Source: Radio-Canada) Sans grande surprise, c'est l'observation du boson de Higgs qui a été retenue comme découverte scientifique de 2012 par la revue Science.
Cette particule est considérée comme la clef de voûte de la structure fondamentale de l'Univers.
Son existence avait été postulée en 1964 par le physicien britannique Peter Higgs, dont il porte le nom, avec ses collègues Robert Brout et François Englert.
La confirmation de son existence en juillet dernier est en fait un élément clé pour expliquer comment d'autres particules élémentaires comme l'électron ou les quarks obtiennent leur masse.

 

Le plus grand père Noël du monde à Saint Niklaus en Suisse.
Les meilleur des Noël à tous et beaucoup d'autres à venir!